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Gollum

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  1. Pfft it's allright for you techies with the new brownie !
  2. Daves. I think I did yours over the other week. I cant be bothered to do mine, I can't be bothereed with it presently.
  3. Your site looks fine in Chrome here! David Erm yeah, right, here comes a new web site. is that correct ?.
  4. Without wishing the worse on a person I never knew, he hasn't passed away has he, is anyone able to contact him on landline etc ?.
  5. Funny that, most of the other coins on there are too. we must have had some real shortages of cash in this country over the decades, still have as it seems
  6. Gollum

    die crack

    The whole idea is of course subject to one condition, that they do not refuse to sell single malts to the English.
  7. Gollum

    die crack

    Thank you for elucidating.
  8. 1889 shilling
  9. don't think he means chocolate ones Accumulator
  10. Ok so lets just call it a checked skirt.
  11. There's no rhyme or reason to any of it. I'm pretty sure that their quotes computer software is little more than a fixed number plus a random number. Nah, their all conected to a crystal ball and the ethereal world
  12. What about all the ones they struck for Edward who abdcicated, werent they pre dated or such as they had to melt them down ?.
  13. Oh well, I had a vauxhall astra. It got stolen from my driveway, when found and written off, the insurance compnay offered me £80 for it as it had no M.O.T on it at the time, I took it, come renewal, guess how much my premium went up..... yep £80. Thank you A-Plan.
  14. Dear Ebay police, this letter is to tell you that accumulator, ColinG and Azda are all the same person and are shill bidding on a penny coin owned by Rob. Right, now their taken care of - £5. Dear Gollum, Unfortunately, whilst it states in our official rules that people bidding under different usernames is forbidden, we dont actually give a flying duck as at the end of the day, the higher the price, the more we make on our scandalous charges - especially on PayPal! As such, I'm afraid that the bid stands at £45.01 with Azda. However, this sounds "A* UbEr-RAR, Specil Edtion All Coletors MUST HAVE - Way beter than AUNC+++++!" so I'll bid £45.015 Yours, eBay Police Bugger it. ( slopes of head down )
  15. Yeah their even better when they don't have wifey dings in the wings etc aren't they
  16. No, but definitely fewer than the 685,000 figure that is stated in ESC and Davies. It is by far the rarest date of the Victorian shillings. Anyone like to make an educated guess how many are left? 2 or 3 dozen perhaps with the number in high grade in low single digits? Unfortunately the phrase "educated guess" begs more questions than it answers. There are just too many imponderables : - First, the stated mintage figure which as we all know is misleading and probably includes very many dated 1849 (approximately the same mintage but not rare at all) - second, the number that might have been swallowed up after 1920 or 1947 when the banks withdrew silver - third, the distorting effect of commoner dates being now less common in relation to 1850 as a result of collectors absorbing 99.9% of all remaining 1850s since the 1950s, but at the same time absorbing a much lower % of common dates, e.g. from 1966-71, 1980, etc - fourth, the lack of any Freeman-like survey AFAIK to base any educated guesswork on It's probably true to say "we'll never know". Do you know whether they also minted in advance eg minted 1851 coins in 1850? I'm guessing they probably would in the situation where the last die of a particular year broke/wore out near the end of the year. I did read somewhere that they did that to use up an old die or such,I think it was in coin world.
  17. The very same.. And he replied to my question about is this the same coin I wil receive Dear scorpion912, yes, the coin shown in the image is the one being sold. caesars_ghost
  18. Which has again ended But relisted http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390384224170
  19. If you have any of those infernal proof sets in the RM cases that you do not want I am looking for one of each year. So pm me a price and year if you want shot of them and I will see what I can do .
  20. What's an NLR then, Garry? No Longer Registered, or NARU take your pick Declan
  21. Gollum

    webhosting

    O, just checked my email account and the hosts sell domains plus hosting for 0,99c a month, so i've secured www.classicbritishcoins.com after my good old mate Dave, I'm liking the irony of your choice. Lol, i was wondering when someone would spot it I've only seen the corrected signature. What did the typo say - "cons" instead of "coins" perchance? www.classicbritishporn.com
  22. The next time a fake appears on eBay, one of us should put in a large bid to secure the item and a few others should report the item as fake. eBay will take no action and allow the buyer to become the proud owner of a worthless item. We could then sue eBay having incontrovertible proof that eBay allowed a fake to be sold. It seems that litigation and bad publicity are the only things eBay listen to. Whoever it was would have to have VERY deep pockets in case it went pete tong and got ruled against. When you have a cast iron case, they would settle out of court. But out of court settlements normally come with a non disclosure clause, and then they would hide it all. so no real benefit except in this case, you know they will just pay it and move on as it would be more profitable to them, much like the auto industry did, it is easier to pay out as cases come up than to stop taking revenue in the first place, especially if only the odd one or two sue.
  23. The next time a fake appears on eBay, one of us should put in a large bid to secure the item and a few others should report the item as fake. eBay will take no action and allow the buyer to become the proud owner of a worthless item. We could then sue eBay having incontrovertible proof that eBay allowed a fake to be sold. It seems that litigation and bad publicity are the only things eBay listen to. Whoever it was would have to have VERY deep pockets in case it went pete tong and got ruled against.
  24. Can you let me know if you ever sold your C.W.Peck book

    Thanks

    Garry

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